How To Install tclspice on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install tclspice on Kali Linux. tclspice is NGSpice library for Tcl

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tclspice on Kali Linux.

What is tclspice

tclspice is:

This package provides the NGSpice simulation engine for your Tcl-scripts by the library libspice. All spice directives are available as Tcl functions and it features some new commands that are useful for the integration into the Tcl environment. It includes Xspice. GUI is handled by Tk using BLT vectors.

There are three methods to install tclspice on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tclspice Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tclspice using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tclspice

Install tclspice Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tclspice using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tclspice

Install tclspice Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install tclspice using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tclspice

How To Uninstall tclspice on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the tclspice package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tclspice

Uninstall tclspice And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tclspice and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tclspice

Remove tclspice Configurations and Data

To remove tclspice configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tclspice

Remove tclspice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tclspice configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tclspice

Dependencies

tclspice have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tclspice package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.